Passive Resistance
ABOUT PASSIVE RESISTANCE
There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Everyone has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, everyone has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
It is morally justifiable to peacefully resist unjust laws; unjust laws do not change because a court or government decides; they change because people stand united together to make change happen. The governments of today make laws that self serve their own interests and that of the big corporations that fund them; stating that you are either with us or against us. But what happens if you are neither?
What if instead of taking sides in this government and corporation controlled theatre, a drama that is played out daily all over the planet, we took the third option and refused to play?
We refused to take sides, we refused to make the choice between whatever candidates were thrust before us to vote for, what then? Then the game would be up! Passive Resistance would......
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